{"id":171479,"date":"2023-09-06T22:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-demonstrate-new-improved-way-to-make-infrared-light-with-quantum-dots"},"modified":"2023-09-06T22:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:25:29","slug":"scientists-demonstrate-new-improved-way-to-make-infrared-light-with-quantum-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-demonstrate-new-improved-way-to-make-infrared-light-with-quantum-dots","title":{"rendered":"Scientists demonstrate new, improved way to make infrared light, with quantum dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-demonstrate-new-improved-way-to-make-infrared-light-with-quantum-dots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists with the University of Chicago have demonstrated a way to create infrared light using colloidal quantum dots. The researchers said the method demonstrates great promise; the dots are already as efficient as existing conventional methods, even though the experiments are still in early stages.<\/p>\n<p>The dots could someday form the basis of infrared lasers as well as small and cost-effective sensors, such as those used in exhaust emissions tests or breathalyzers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now the performance for these dots is close to existing commercial <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrared+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared light<\/a> sources, and we have reason to believe we could significantly improve that,\u201d said Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, a professor of physics and chemistry at the University of Chicago, member of the James Frank Institute, and one of three authors on the paper published in <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>. \u201cWe\u2019re very excited for the possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists with the University of Chicago have demonstrated a way to create infrared light using colloidal quantum dots. The researchers said the method demonstrates great promise; the dots are already as efficient as existing conventional methods, even though the experiments are still in early stages. The dots could someday form the basis of infrared lasers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}